Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winning elections and dispensing patronage, oblivious to broader issues since the American electorate is itself "non-ideological." The foregoing opinion has the virtue of being comfortable: it tells people like my father, a liberal man who's voted for Roosevelt four times, Trumanonce, Stevenson twice. Kennedy, Johnson and Humphrey (and wishes he'd voted for McGovern) that the world's oldest, continuous political party is still pretty much the same. Not too much will be different with Jimmy Carter as president and the Democrats retaining their nearly two-thirds congressional majority, the experts imply...
MAINE'S MUSKIE, 62. A bruised veteran of presidential politics, Muskie sparkled as Hubert Humphrey's 1968 running mate, but stumbled in his own reach for the top in 1972. The former Governor has served 17 competent years in the Senate, and could well rise to the demands of any succession to the White House. His past losses, however, are a handicap...
...entirely congenial to Carter, but a good deal of Jacksonian doctrine was written into the Democratic platform last week. On the softer side−perhaps too soft−is Frank Church of Idaho, who has long experience on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Then there is always Hubert Humphrey, already a world figure, a centrist in foreign policy, and articulate to say the least. But Humphrey may be more interested in succeeding Mike Mansfield as Senate Majority Leader...
...presumably meaning work in parks, drug-rehabilitation clinics and the like−and launch a program to create 800,000 summer jobs for youths. But he flatly opposes the idea that the Government should guarantee everyone a job through hiring for public-service employment. Though Carter has endorsed the Humphrey-Hawkins Bill. which calls for just such Government hiring, it is a ritualistic blessing only. Says his chief economic adviser, Lawrence R. Klein: "This bill could become an albatross. But no bill goes through Congress without amendments, and I can envision ten amendments that would make this a good bill...
...door mat. Though he makes a fool of himself over her, he never loses his discretion or his cool collector's eye. Here is Muhlbach on entering Lambeth's apartment for the first time: "On the walls a cheap Miro print, a Tantra poster, a blowup of Humphrey Bogart, half a dozen tissue paper collages." On her shelves, "a picture book about Marilyn Monroe. Scientology. I Ching. M.C. Escher prints. One of Heyerdahl's raft trips. A bestseller by a formidable lady with three names...